"Just Friends" (Hiding in plain sight) Ft. Byler

He gets the boy, he gets the diploma, and he gets the powers. But everything has a price to go with it.

Will struggles to admit things to himself, the delightful tree of palm allows him to admit it to himself once and for all. From admitting his sexuality to himself, to admitting it to someone else.

Trying to navigate high school, then college creates even more issues. Working almost full time at a restaurant flooded by the military alone causes his pulse to rise. And meeting Connor Brown just gets him into even more trouble. Causing him to hide things from the people he loves, even Mike Wheeler.

Behind the closed apartment doors he can be himself. But past those doors hes a straight, hetero man with nothing interesting about him.

‼️⚠️Warnings⚠️ ‼️

This story contains:

-substance use and abuse
-marijuana
-alcohol
-internalized homophobia
-Depression and su!c!d@l thoughts
-sexual scenes and references
And other mature themes. If any of these are triggers than this story may not be for you.

Side note: this story is based after season 5 and written before volume 2 and the finale. Nobody died, and Will didn't loose his powers.

It's based during the end of high school and into their first year of college. Everyone is 18+